1510s in music

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The decade of the 1510s in music (years 1510–1519) involved some significant events.

Events

1513: Jacques Champion replaces Noel Bauldeweyn as magister cantorum at St Rombouts, Mechelen.^[1]
1517:
- March – Heinrich Finck sends greetings from Mühldorf, Bavaria, to the humanist Joachim Vadian.^[2]
- April 15 – Juan García de Basurto is hired as a singer by the cathedral chapter of Tarazona, at an annual salary of 1200 sueldos.^[3]
- June – Silvestro Ganassi dal Fontego joins the pifferi of the Venetian government as a "contralto".^[4]
- Sixt Dietrich is forced to leave Freiburg because of debts, but in November is appointed informator choralium by the cathedral chapter in Konstanz.^[5]
1518: Composer Ludwig Senfl loses a toe in a hunting accident.

Publications

Illustration from the title page of Arnolt Schlick's Spiegel der Orgelmacher und Organisten (1511), the first German treatise on organ building and performance

1511:
- Franciscus Bossinensis – Tenori e contrabassi intabulati col sopran in canto figurato per cantar e sonar col lauto, Libro secundo (Venice: Ottaviano Petrucci)
- Arnolt Schlick – Spiegel der Orgelmacher und Organisten, the first treatise on organ-making in German
- Sebastian Virdung – Musica getutscht und angezogen, published in Basel, the first European treatise entirely devoted to the subject of musical instruments.
1512: Arnolt Schlick – Tabulaturen etlicher lobgesang, a collection of organ and lute pieces
1515: Antoine de Févin – Masses (Fossombrone: Ottaviano Petrucci), also includes one mass by Pierre de la Rue (Quarti toni)
1517:
- Andreas Ornithoparchus – Musicae activae micrologus (Leipzig).
- Sebastian z Felsztyna – Opusculum musicae compilatum (Kraków: Johann Haller).
1518:
- The Medici Codex (manuscript)
- Franchinus Gaffurius – De harmonia musicorum instrumentorum opus. Milan.

Compositions

1510: Josquin des Prez assembles or composes Missa de Beata Virgine, a musical setting of the Ordinary of the Mass, and it becomes the most popular of his masses in the 16th century.^{[citation needed]}
1513: Heinrich Isaac – Optime pastor, motet celebrating the meeting in December of Maximilian I's Chancellor, Cardinal Lang, and the newly elected Pope Leo X
1514: Costanzo Festa – Quis dabit oculis, funeral ode for Anne of Brittany, Queen of France
1519: Adrian Willaert – Quid non ebrietas designat, setting of Horace's fifth epistle, for four voices

Births

1510

Juan Bermudo, Spanish music theorist (died 1565)
Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish composer and organist of the Renaissance (died 1566)
probable – Loys Bourgeois, French composer, famous for his Protestant hymn tunes (died c.1561)
probable – Gian Domenico del Giovane da Nola, Neapolitan composer, famous for his villanescas and villanellas in the Neapolitan style (died 1592)

1511

date unknown – Nicola Vicentino, Italian music theorist and composer (died 1575/1576)

1513

February 14 – Domenico Ferrabosco, Italian composer and singer (died 1574)
May 16 – Antonfrancesco Doni, Italian writer, academic and musician (died 1574)

1516

probable – Cipriano de Rore, Flemish composer (died 1565)

1517

January 17 – Antonio Scandello, Italian composer and instrumentalist (died 1580)
January 31 or March 22 – Gioseffo Zarlino, Venetian theorist (died 1590)

Deaths

1513: January – Hans Folz, German Meistersinger, barber, and surgeon (born ?before 1440)
1517: March 26 – Heinrich Isaac, Franco-Flemish composer (born c.1445)

References

^ Edgar H. Sparks and Bernadette Nelson, "Bauldeweyn [Balbun, Balduin, Bauldewijn, Baulduin, Baulduvin, Valdovin], Noel [Noe, Natalis]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^ Lothar Hoffmann-Erbrecht, "Finck, Heinrich", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^ Robert Stevenson, "García de Basurto, Juan", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^ Howard Mayer Brown and Giulio Ongaro, "Ganassi dal Fontego, Sylvestro di", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^ Manfred Schuler, "Dietrich [Dieterich, Theodericus, Theodorici], Sixt [Sixtus, Xistus]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).

[1] Edgar H. Sparks and Bernadette Nelson, "Bauldeweyn [Balbun, Balduin, Bauldewijn, Baulduin, Baulduvin, Valdovin], Noel [Noe, Natalis]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).

[2] Lothar Hoffmann-Erbrecht, "Finck, Heinrich", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).

[3] Robert Stevenson, "García de Basurto, Juan", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).

[4] Howard Mayer Brown and Giulio Ongaro, "Ganassi dal Fontego, Sylvestro di", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).

[5] Manfred Schuler, "Dietrich [Dieterich, Theodericus, Theodorici], Sixt [Sixtus, Xistus]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).

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